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Empirical Accounting of Adaptation to Environmental Change: Organizational Competencies and Biodiversity in Finnish Forest Management

Primmer, Eeva; Wolf, Steven A. - 2009

"Integration of biodiversity conservation into economic utilization of natural resources has become a central response … for biodiversity conservation. We analyze the scale, scope, and distribution of the resources and competencies that … support the delineation of ecologically significant habitats in intensively managed nonindustrial private forests in Finland …

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Social Infrastructure to Integrate Science and Practice: The Experience of the Long Tom Watershed Council

Flitcroft, Rebecca L.; Dedrick, Dana C.; Smith, Courtland L. - 2009

"Ecological problem solving requires a flexible social infrastructure that can incorporate scientific insights and adapt to changing conditions. As applied to watershed management, social infrastructure includes mechanisms to design, carry out, evaluate, and modify plans for resource protection...

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Improving forest health and productivity in Eastern Oregon and Washington

Quigley, T.M.; Hayes, J.L.; Starr, L.; Daterman, G.E. - 2001

Forest health and productivity decline in eastern Oregon and Washington, USA has resulted in risks to products, economies, and amenities that are deemed unacceptable to many residents and non-residents. Information and management tools exist that will assist managers in improving conditions, but...

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A theory for optimal monitoring of marine reserves

Gerber, L. R.; Beger, M.; McCarthy, M. A.; Possingham, H. P. - 2005

Monitoring of marine reserves has traditionally focused on the task of rejecting the null hypothesis that marine reserves have no impact on the population and community structure of harvested populations. We consider the role of monitoring of marine reserves to gain information needed for...

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Comparing opportunity cost measures of forest conservation in Uganda; implications for assessing the distributional impacts of forest management approaches

Bush, Glenn; Hanley, Nick; Rondeau, Daniel - 2011

Reducing deforestation and forest degradation will mean imposing restrictions on the use of forest resources by households that currently use natural forests to maintain their livelihoods. An emerging issue in forest monitoring is the need to assess social and economic impacts in forest user...

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On Sustainable Use of Renewable Resources in Protected Areas as an Instrument of Biodiversity Conservation : A Bioeconomic Analysis

Tai, Hsing-Sheng - 2002

adequate strategy for biodiversity conservation. To do this, the dynamic interaction between the use of wild species …

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Protected-Area Monitoring Dilemmas: a New Tool to Assess Success

Walker, Kendra L. - 2009

Understanding factors that influence the success of protected areas in curbing unsustainable resource consumption is essential for determining best management strategies and allocating limited resources to those projects most likely to succeed. I used a law-enforcement and monitoring game-theory...

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1991 Annual report on scientific programs: A broad research program on the sciences of complexity

2008

1991 was continued rapid growth for the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) as it broadened its interdisciplinary research into the organization, evolution and operation of complex systems and sought deeply the principles underlying their dynamic behavior. Research on complex systems--the focus of work at...

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Military Ecological Risk Assessment Framework (MERAF) for Assessment of Risks of Military Training and Testing to Natural Resources

Suter II, G.W. - 2008

The objective of this research is to provide the DoD with a framework based on a systematic, risk-based approach to assess impacts for management of natural resources in an ecosystem context. This risk assessment framework is consistent with, but extends beyond, the EPA's ecological risk...

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Gas Research Institute wetland research program

Wilkey, P.L.; Zimmerman, R.E.; Isaacson, H.R. - 2008

As part of three ongoing research projects, the Gas Research Institute (GRI) is studying the natural gas industry's impacts on wetlands and how to manage operations so that impacts can be minimized or eliminated. The objective of the first project is to gain a better understanding of the causes...

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